Staying Young By Writing Articles

Keep Your Mind Engaged

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Use it or lose it. This applies to your brain. Writing is a great way for you to keep your mind active. How? By getting involved in a mental activity. Write articles that are focused on your point of view on any topic. You have a lot of experiences and knowledge. Write about it. You can have a lot of fun, educate people and keep your mind active. This is a major step towards staying young.

Exercise for muscles is important and so is exercise for the brain. You'll get that by being an author. Write about what you know and keep improving your articles and your writing ability. The more writing you do, the easier it gets to write more, write better and even write profitably.

While you could tackle a novel, or a short story, creating works of non-fiction is a great way to get started. Your experiences will help you. You can cover things that occurred. You don't have to worry too much about vocabulary, rhythm, or structure. While fiction works are great to do, a lot of people start in the non-fiction area and graduate to stories in time. The main point is to get started with the process. You can see how it all goes and branch to various areas that interest you.

Start by thinking about a topic. Were you, or are you, a teacher? Perfect! Write about your favorite subject to teach, your most memorable class or your biggest problem. When you create text like this, you'll not only keep your mind active, you may even help a young teacher. That teacher will be very appreciative.

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By reviewing the above, you may find something that evokes a strong response in your mind. Take one of these and use it. Create 1000 words that describes the topic from your point of view. Put in examples and details. Usually, you will make it fairly anonymous, ("A student did this", "A parent said this".) Make the topic your own and get this writing job done. By making it personal, you should have little trouble hitting the 1000 word total.

Practice

Perhaps you haven't written your thoughts for years. Maybe you didn't pen texts much at all. You may feel uncomfortable with the thought of doing so now. This could be natural for those who are not used to the exercise. Give it a try, however. Start with a title and outline. This should contain six or seven bullet sentences that can form the body of your work. Make each relate to each other. If you can establish a chronological ording, that will help as you develop your thoughts. If you need to add extra points to the outline, do so. Don't make it so long as to be your completed effort, though.

Do AnotherWhen your first piece of writing is finished, get prepared to do another. Practice makes perfect, or at least better. Depending on the publishing site, you may need to wait for final approval. Use this time to create more work.

If you are, or were, a manager, write about something that immediately comes to mind. Start writing and see where it goes. The more passionate you are about the topic, the easier it will be to write a good lens. Start with the basics and the details will come to mind. You will likely remember more details as you get involved. Add them to the your work as appropriate.

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Using Your Managerial Talents and Experiences

As a manager, you have a wealth of job experiences to draw from. The ones shown here is fairly common to most people's career work. One may speak to you. Create 1000 words about that. Make it personal and relevant to the topic. Add in anecdotes as appropriate. You may find that hitting the word goal is actually pretty easy. While you can go over the mark, try to avoid really lengthy works. If it is too long, you may lose your readers' attention. You can always write a second text that builds on the first. This works well to keep readers engaged.

If you start to digress and have way too much information, start a related piece of work. Two published works will be even better at keeping you engaged. Still more information? Write a third related piece. More unrelated information? Start a new series of work. You can start authoring however you want to. As you learn more about the process, you can improve your earliest work or create new texts that expand on the original.

You have to have a photo or other graphic image for your writings now. These can be images that you captured with your camera or ones that you build yourself using a computer program. Even the Paint application can be used. Just start putting in some items, save and put the image on Flickr, Imgur or some other picture hosting site, or upload it to the content hosting site. There are lots of examples of images created in Paint and linked via Flickr:

Once you get started, check for tips on how to use the web better. Anything you do on on the Internet will keep your mind active and engaged. You'll educate people and you'll learn a lot of new skills at the same time. Since you'll have fun in the process, it will be easy! Best of all, you can earn revenue for your work days, weeks, and months, after you put in the time to publish.